It looks like Biohazard/Resident Evil meets CounterStrike when it Capcom annouced Biohazard: Umbrella Corps during the Tokyo Game Show 2015 (TGS 2015) early this week. With the announcement, a live action trailer was released in cooperation with MilitaryBlog.jp, the central source of anything military, tactical, and airsoft in Japan, and should give you an idea how the game play will be when its released:

Umbrella Corps looks like a three on three multiplayer third-person shooter game with the Biohazard zombies sprinkled around the game maps to remind players that they are in a Biohazard world. There will be access to weapons and a Tactical Shield that allows to use zombies as cover which sound a good option to use when moving forward. Other anti-zombie weapons such as the Brainer combat axe will also be available for use by the players.

At first thought, we don't know how this will be received by players, given that in 2012 there was the Operation Raccoon City four-player coop multiplayer shooter that didn't really get much traction. But who knows this time? It might take off as players wait for the next Biohazard/Resident Evil release.

Just like CounterStrike, players only have one life per game. Once fragged, the player has to wait for the next game/map to play again. For one team to win, it has to eliminate all the players of the opposing team.

Going back to weapons, apart from the shotguns, assault rifles, grenades, and pistols, there is the Zombie Jammer which is a backpack that is worn by each player. The Zombie Jammer allows the players to go on playing without worrying about the zombies attacking them. Now, if you take out the Zombie Jammer by shooting it or disabling with the Jammer Buster which is an explosive designed to take out the Zombie Jammer, the player wearing the Zombie Jammer faces another problem --- the zombies will attack him/her.

The Zombie Jammer is a nice device to have but I would rather suggest it to be a perk that can be picked up somewhere in the map than a regular equipment for the players. The team should be dealing with the zombies and against the opposing team at the same time throughout the game. This makes it a more interesting gameplay where the shooters will have to be on their toes all the time again, having to watch out an enemy shooter who pop out around a corner or a flesh-hungry zombie.

Umbrella Corps is set to be released in the first part of 2016 and will be available for the Sony Playstation and Windows PC.